RapiĀ Castillo
Summary
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SeniorRapi Castillo is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder who currently steers engineering at Coforma while running Rapico LLC, bringing a decade of experience across startups, government digital services, and civic tech. As Director of Engineering at Coforma and former Senior Engineering Manager at Code for America, he built scalable teams, established risk-conscious engineering culture, and designed organizational processes that connect engineers with product and program managers to deliver public-benefit work in multiple states. His work spans campaign tech, grassroots organizing, and platform-building to empower movement-led distribution, underpinned by a passion for bottom-up strategies and heroes like Granovetter, Kleinberg, and Malcom Gladwell. He has hands-on leadership experience managing 4-10 direct reports and leading cross-functional teams in complex, matrixed environments, plus experience recruiting diverse engineers from government, private sector, and non-profits. Based in New York City, he blends systems thinking with practical delivery, from front-end to back-end, and from voter engagement platforms to urban civic tech, and holds advanced degrees in computer science from the University of the Philippines.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
nyc10
tiles8
mapbox-gl-js7
nodejs7
javascript7
progressive7
vector6
maps6
3d6
vector-tiles6
geojson6
webgl6
mapbox-gl6
react5
aggregates5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
350org/megamap
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
A map that pulls events and local group info from all of our different platforms.
Contributions:3 releases, 35 PRs, 182 pushes in 11 months
eventsmapplatforms
rapicastillo/event-etl-bsd
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
etlblue
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